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Jose Alaniz
C LIT 496
Seattle Campus
Offered occasionally by visitors or resident faculty. Content varies.
Class description
What is “disability”? What is “health”? What is “normal”? What is a “body”? This course will examine how these questions have historically been answered in Russia and its cultural productions involving disability, focusing on 19th -21st -century literature and art. Among our topics: the grotesque, the “holy fool” and the “cult of suffering.” We conclude with a consideration of the disabled in late/post-Soviet Russia – a (still-ongoing) historical moment in which discourses of disability have reached unprecedented levels – and ponder the future of disability rights in Russia.
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